A wellness journey to my better self and a simpler life
Happy New Year!! I absolutely adore new years! The hope, the fresh start, the clean slate… New Year’s Day is my favorite holiday. Not New Year’s Eve, which in my opinion is one last day to enjoy vices, go to an early dinner for one last hurrah, watch a movie and go to bed. But
The Holidays are a tough time of year for most due to the high level of expectations and inevitable disappointments. It is almost impossible not to compare, with all the television commercials and catalogs assaulting us with images of what Christmas is supposed to look like. Roaring fires, bountiful buffets gorgeously garnished, caroling families, perfect
All of our bodies have a weight at which it is most comfortable. This is called a set-point weight. We may not be comfortable at that weight and want to gain or lose some, but our body has adapted to life at that weight so it wants to stay there. It likes what it knows.
Heatherash Amara writes that we all carry the seeds of self-sabotage within our minds in the form of two negative voices; siblings of the same parents, fear and self-rejection. One voice is the judge. The other is the victim. The voice of the judge looks for what you or others aren’t doing right. My judge
“The root of suffering is attachment.” – The Buddha My mom has been depressed and ill most of my life. The little girl that spent her childhood waiting and hoping and expecting her mom to be something more still lives inside of me, and she is still waiting and hoping. Heatherash Amara explains in “Warrior
For most of my life I have taken my suffering out on others, mainly the ones who love me most, like my mother for a very long time, and then my husband, as well. We hurt the people closest to us; they are the only ones who tend to take it. I didn’t really know
Welcome to my journey of self-discovery and healing. After years of keeping busy, living in a near constant state of fight or flight, operating on cortisol and adrenaline, things have slowed down. I finally graduated college in May, the book I spent a year co-editing was published in late September, and I do not foresee
